For a while I considered hiding in the "safety" of blaming others. I could live every day knowing any failure or trouble now and in my future is all the fault of those who caused me harm years ago.

曾经有一段时间，我常常责备他人，我认为生活中不管是现在的还是未来的失败与困难，都是过去伤害我的那些人的错误。

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The fault slip that happens in an earthquake changes the stress acting on other faults in the area, and may influence how close they are to failure themselves.

地震时发生的断层滑动确实会造成作用在该地区其他断层上的压力的改变，从而改变这些断层发生断裂的可能性。

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The Web Services business process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) standard offers fault handlers and compensation handlers to model failure and exceptional paths in your business process logic.

Web服务业务流程执行语言(Web Services Business Process Execution Language, WS - BPEL)标准提供了错误处理程序和补偿处理程序，用于在您的业务流程逻辑中建模故障和异常路径。

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But no matter who is ultimately determined to be of fault, and no matter how disturbing the failure might be to each of us, where is there a criminal act to be covered-up?

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Engineers and operations staff investigated the failure, which was later diagnosed as a fault with a transformer.

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Now, at this stage in the review process it appears that this incident was not the fault of a single individual or organization, but rather a systemic failure across organizations and agencies.

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